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Reviews
successfully ambitious ... This book makes better sense than any I know of the relation of poetry in this period to the pre-revolutionary world in which the poets lived. * Christopher Hill, Notes and Queries *
valuable insistence on political content ... Norbrook is far too subtle a critic to imagine that his writers used art merely as a vehicle for political opinions. * Blair Worden, London Review of Books *
The strengths of Norbrook's argument are considerable ... connections between early and later Tudor literatures, and between Elizabethan and Stuart periods, emerge vividly. * Katharine Eisaman Maus, Western Humanities Review *
He aims to correct the distortions of history we have all inherited, and in bringing off that ambition he has written a book of exceptional interest. Nothing he discusses will be quite the same again ... This bold, finely researched and well-written book should have a decisive effect on our thinking about the poetry of the English Renaissance. * Frank Kermode, Times Literary Supplement *
This is a successfully ambitious book ... makes better sense than any I know of the relation of poetry in this period to the pre-revolutionary world in which the poets lived. * Christopher Hill, Notes and Queries *
He aims to correct the distortions of history we have all inherited, and in bringing off that ambition he has written a book of exceptional interest. Nothing he discusses will be quite the same again ... This bold, finely researched and well-written book should have a decisive effect on our thinking about the poetry of the English Renaissance.' * Frank Kermode, Times Literary Supplement *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199247196
Author David Norbrook
Format Paperback
Page Count 348
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 500g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 19mm